GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

Yes and with someone that awful. I practically had to watch him deliver his lines through my fingers in the threesome ep. For whatever reason I guess he just really rubbed me the wrong way.

he is the worst!

remember two months ago when we all thought adam was the worst?

I never really thought he was the worst at all.

But I realize a lot of people did.

heh I did, the sexual weirdness and especially stuff he said about her body in the first couple episodes made me really not like him

you can tell venture capitalist is really the worst though because of how badly he comes off in even the most banal moments; remember cringing while he like, cut the wedding cake

lol yes

Their attempts to out self-absorb each other should be funny.

also he has two first names, ew, "Thomas John"

xp i still don't really like adam...

I didn't like *any* of the guys in the show for the first 2 or 3 episodes. Now I'm like 'awww you guys <3!' lol

really liked the gawker recap again, just as a thing to read.

he was psycho & rapey & she had nothing but contempt for him & then she married him

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/12/article-1265280-090A0777000005DC-821_468x514.jpg

zing!

Aye I suppose that is something - while there's no Girls there's no Girls recap. Unless John Cook actually goes off the deepend and starts portraying The Further Adventures of Lena & Friends.

he's promised no girls recaps even when the show comes back. i'd really be into that girls recaps continues without the show idea though!

it's more or less what he's doing anyway

his recaps are actually pretty factual and accurate, just very... particular.

he tries to mock them for things they're doing intentionally. hes muddying the interpretive waters, its dumb

I read some of these and I find him kind of annoying

muddying the interpretive waters! couldn't we just say he's "problematizing the text" instead, and give him a gold star?

I won't read him anymore

:)

muddying the interpretive waters! couldn't we just say he's "problematizing the text" instead, and give him a gold star?

― s.clover, Wednesday, June 20, 2012 3:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

intentionally misreading obvious signposts is idiotic imo. we're not talking abt deconstructing the text here hes just looking at something red & trying to tell us its blue

deconstruction of the text, whatever

those recaps are the worst

yeah, they're basically unreadable

otm

that guy is an idiot

not just his Girls recaps, either

what else does he do

it's shameful behaviour, really. and shameful writing too, of course.

haha VG i just meant, his other gawker articles seem needlessly sensationalistic to me.

lol @ "weed dad's wife"

band waiting to happen imo

Yeah, yeah. Maybe it's just me. NO AMOUNT OF MONEY.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, June 20, 2012 1:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd imagine this is true of anyone who angrily demands to be "balls deep" in a negotiation.

those recaps are the worst

― dmr, Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, they're basically unreadable

― Number None, Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

― carly rae (flopson), Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that guy is an idiot

― horseshoe, Thursday, June 21, 2012 12:11 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fifthed.

http://www.alternet.org/story/155952/television_hit_%27girls%27_postmortem%3A_still_racist_and_classist/

this show's advances in the realm of progressive womanist television are very nearly undermined by its oblivious, exclusionist and unknowingly racist (the worst kind, no?)

no.

overheard: "it's the 21st century, we don't more shows about what it's like being a rich, quirky Jew living in NYC"

Lena's show is stirring up so much racial h8red

the gif that keeps on gifing http://i55.tinypic.com/2iawqvq.gif

"Turns out, it was not as offensive as I expected it to be."

From the Shepherd's Alternet review.

Also, womanist?

http://gawker.com/5920394/classic-jessa-girls-star-jemima-kirke-is-pregnant

wait, unknowing racism is the worst kind?

yes. europeans were more racist before they had ever met africans than when they enslaved them.

the subtext of that article makes it very clear the author is reaching to find things to hate about the show. "DREADING" the crack episode because the show would most likely show latino or black people smoking crack (and then chalking up the fact that it didn't to its overall racism) is an example... or the eventual claim that dunham's otherization of the rooftop partiers in coney island is the worst form of racism, no?

That recipe for roasted potatoes is pretty hilarious.